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Borrowed Babies

Apprenticing for Motherhood

Jill Christman
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Pages
100
Year
2014
Language
English

About

Until the 1960s, infants were plucked from orphanages and maternity wards and used as "practice babies" in college home economics department across the country. Award-winning writer Jill Christman was determined to find out what happened to them. Along the way, five months pregnant herself, with her hormones (and anxiety) raging, she also hoped to discover what it means to be a mother.

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